Chapter 1: The Nature and Scope of Research (Dr Euclid Seeram) ¡¤ What is Research?¡¤ Medical Radiation Sciences Research: AN Overview¡¤ The Importance of Research¡¤ Steps in Conducting Research? The Research Process Cycle? Identifying a Research Problem? Literature Review? Purpose of Research? Data Collection? Data Analysis and Interpretation? Reporting and Evaluating Research? Use of Statistics¡¤ Research Ethics¡¤ The Research Proposal¡¤ Examples of Research in Medical Radiation Sciences¡¤ ReferencesChapter 2: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Research-An Overview of Approaches (Dr Euclid Seeram)¡¤ What is Quantitative Research?¡¤ What is Qualitative Research?¡¤ Characteristics of Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches¡¤ Research Designs-Overview¡¤ Selection of the Research Approach¡¤ Two Examples of Quantitative and Qualitative Research Chapter 3: Planning Your Research (Dr Rob Davidson) . Formulating a Research Question. Justifying a research question. Formulating a Hypothesis. Researc...h Ethics. The Research Proposal Chapter 4: The Literature Review (Dr Rob Davidson) . What is a literature review compared to an annotated bibliography?. Searching the literature. Critical Reading and Analysis. Writing the Review. Acknowledgement of Sources Chapter 5: Quantitative Research Methods (Dr Andrew England-Contributor) ¡¤ Quantitative Research Methodso Descriptive Researcho Correlational Researcho Quasi-Experimental Researcho Experimental Research Chapter 6: Qualitative Research Methods (Dr Chandra Makanjee-Contributor) o Phenomenological Researcho Grounded Theory Researcho Ethnographic Researcho Explanatory - Descriptive Qualitative Researcho Historical ResearchChapter 7: Data Collection, Analysis and Interpretation (Dr Mark McEntee-Contributor) ¡¤ Data Collection¡¤ Descriptive Statisticso Presentation of Datao Measure of central tendencyo Standard deviationo Varianceo Correlation¡¤ Inferential statisticso Hypothesis testingo Sampling Distributions: Parametric and non-parametrico Using Parametric statistics? Dependent samples? Independent sampleso Using Non Parametric statistics? Dependent samples? Independent samples¡¤ Observer performance testso ROC methodso sensitivityo specificityo PPV and NPVo Accuracy¡¤ Interpreting the outcomes of statistical tests Chapter 8: Communicating Research Findings (Dr Rob Davidson) . Method of Communicating Your Research Findings. Audience and Conference / Journal Selection. Poster / Conference Presentations. Journal Articles¡¤ Understanding the journal's requirements¡¤ The review process¡¤ Alteration / rejection? What to do¡¤ Where to from HereChapter 9: Research Examples in Medical Imaging-A Selected Review (Dr Euclid Seeram)